Winners of the Taiwan STS Dissertation/Thesis Awards 2018 & 2017

Winners of the Taiwan STS Dissertation/Thesis Awards 2018 & 2017
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (2018)

Excellence Award

  • Promising Taiwanese: Futures, Imaginaries and Communities in the Life of Taiwan Biobank
    by Wan-Ju LEE 李宛儒
    PhD, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University (UK)
    Supervisors: Brian Wynne & Richard Tutton

Merit Award

  • To Hand Over Lives to the Market: The Politics, Market and Culture of the Automotive Safety Technology in Taiwan [in Chinese]
    by Ching-Keng LIU 劉清耿
    PhD, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University
    Supervisors: Chuan-Yuan WU 吳泉源 & Gwo-Shyong SHIEH 謝國雄

MASTER’S THESIS (2018)
Both Excellence Award and Merit Award were not awarded this year.


DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (2017)

Excellence Award

  • Modernizing Fertility: International Network of Social Knowledge, Contraceptive Technologies, and Family Planning Programs between Taiwan and the United States, 1950s-1960s
    by Yu-Ling HUANG 黃于玲
    PhD, Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton Univeristy (USA)
    Supervisor: Benita Roth

Merit Award

  • Miracle Herbs, Health Food or Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals? Science, Market and the Efficacy Politics of Lingzhi [in Chinese]
    by Chin-Chih AN 安勤之
    PhD, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Supervisor: Chia-Ling WU 吳嘉苓

MASTER’S THESIS (2017)

Excellence Award

  • Negotiating Ideal Parenthood: The Narratives and Practice of Autistic Children’s Parents [in Chinese]
    by I-Ting LU 盧意婷
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Pei-Chia LAN 藍佩嘉

Merit Award

  • The Everyday Work of Health Professionals in a Mountain Indigenous Township in Southern Taiwan [in Chinese]
    by Ching Wen LU 盧敬文
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University
    Advisors: Shao-Hua LIU 劉紹華 & Wen-Lan LIN 林文蘭
  • An STS Study On The Development of Engineering Testing Equipment: A Case of a Small Taiwanese Machinery Firm [in Chinese]
    by Yang-Hong CHEN 陳彥宏
    Master, Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang-Ming University
    Advisors: Wen-Ling HONG 洪文玲 & Hung-Jen YANG 楊弘任
  • Rewriting the History of Taiwanese Vernacular Cinema: Black-and-White Film Stock, the Conversion to Color Film and Party-State Cultural Governance [in Chinese]
    by Chih-Heng SU 蘇致亨
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Hwa-Jen LIU 劉華真
  • Use Actor-Network Theory to Explore the Primary School Teachers in Promoting Reading and Writing Difficulties in an Initial Stage [in Chinese]
    by Sue-Hang CHANG 張舒涵
    Master, Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University
    Advisors: Fei-Ching CHEN 陳斐卿 & Ping-Chuan PENG 彭秉權